On The Other Hand...

Let's look beyond Dr. Ford's testimony for a moment.  Although, some crucial facts have emerged about it, regarding conflicts between it and her therapist's notes; the latter referring to the mid-80s, and a different number of people involved.*  Let's look at Judge Kav's story.

He admitted to drinking beer at the time, and doing 'some things' that he is not proud of, but 'everybody' drank beer, and he never went blank when drinking, and anyway, that was all a long time ago.  But if it came out, under this additional look by the FBI into this whole thing, that he, in fact, became quite a different person when under the influence of alcohol - what then??

Well, it wouldn't prove that he had had anything to do with Dr. Ford.  But it would bring up additional questions regarding this whole thing.  And the Democrats would jump all over it, and thereby succeed in putting off his confirmation vote, hopefully - for them - until after the midterms, by which time they may be able to pull out all the stops and cheat their way into some more seats in the Senate and possibly House as well, and thereby hamstring Trump from ever being able to get any more appointments onto the SCOTUS - and thereby save any review of Roe v. Wade; which seems to be a key issue here, for the Dems.

Interesting.  So, my thoughts:

If a question about Judge Kav's past does come out from the FBI's 'supplemental investigation,' that threatens to delay the confirmation vote, a scenario to consider would be to let Judge Kav's confirmation vote go for now, and for Pres. Trump to nominate an even better conservative/constitutionalist candidate, in the form of that Catholic woman with five children who is clearly not wedded to abortion per se, but to the Constitution, and its proper interpretation.  And have the Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee, and the Senate itself as currently constituted, rush her nomination through to completion before the midterms.  And then re-visit Judge Kav's nomination on the other side of that major electoral divide.

And that would also allow some further digging into Dr. Ford's story.  Because there may be a very deep subject here, that needs to be brought out, into the light.  And not only for the country.  But for Dr. Ford herself.  Having to do with her deepest feelings.

My theorizing: She has engaged in abortion herself.  And being a basic moral being, has some deep anguish about it.  And so, in a manner of projection, does not want that issue revisited.  Because it may bring up her deep sense of guilt about it.  And a person could very well do anything - anything - to keep from having to face that fact about themselves.        

That they caused the death of a life.  And not just any old life.  But a life that they were giving existence to.  And chose to terminate.

Were responsible for.

This could be a very existential thing for Dr. Ford.


May we all benefit - in the long run - from this whole matter.


PS. To be totally transparent about all this: I personally don't think that there is going to be a midterm election in November.  I think that things are going to come to a head in this country before then, and it will be A New Beginning in America, and the world.
     But taking things one step at a time...

P.P.S. I have had on my blog's Reading List a link to Dr. Jim Fetzer's main blog site.  For some reason, it has failed to come up on my site for the last two days.
     I am not happy about this.  And presumably, neither is he.
     To be continued.

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* Why would this be relevant?  Well, for one thing that would place her closer to the 'days' when she was becoming quite a party girl - according to a close friend of hers.  And that, of course, would undercut her story, of being the very young innocent who feared for her life under Brett's mistreatment of her.  (Never mind that she can't recall how she got to the house, or who drove her home, or that none of the people that she has identified as having been there have corroborated her story - but she clearly remembers that it was Brett who was involved.  In whatever.)
   So which was it, Dr. Ford?